Social norms and criticism has been a huge impact on how we view and feel about beauty. In the articles, blah blah blah, beauty is seen in different ways such as race and muscularity. The U.S. perceives beauty as whites as beautiful, perfect and harmless and blacks as ugly, imperfect and dangerous and how physically in shape a person is. The articles show informational facts about how Disney films and college students view beauty and how the audience takes those views and uses them in social settings.
In Dorothy L. Hurley’s article, Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princess, Disney’s fairy tales have constructed the minds of young children since 1937, when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released. Since then, Sleeping…show more content… These objects included white birds, white horses, white flowers, white castles, white hair, white ducks, white gates, black rats, black bats, black owls, black cats, knights dressed in black, black wardrobe, black eels and black horses. Within these objects, each of the films described each black and white object as good and bad; white meaning good and black meaning bad. Each object the princess encounters that is white, shows the viewers that the objects are friendly and will help the princess in her adventure. When the princess comes across something dark and black, there is an obstacle that the princess has to face in order to achieve what she needs to do. For example, Sleeping Beauty shows Aurora as this white, blonde, blue eyed girl that believes in the world. Her world is colorful and there is no sadness or problems that she has to face. Once her “wicked stepmother, Maleficent” (Hurley 225) appears, the viewer can see that she is evil by looking at the color black she is wearing. The audience can automatically tell that Maleficent is going to harm Aurora in one way or another.
In Roberto Olivardia, Harrison G. Pope Jr., John J. Borowiecki III, and Geoffrey H. Cohane’s research article, Biceps and Body Image: The Relationship Between Muscularity and Self-Esteem, Depression, and Eating Disorder Symptoms, researchers took one hundred and fifty four male heterosexual college
